Sara López won the gold medal and for the ninth time she was champion in archery. / COURTESY
The Colombian Sara López went from less to more until she won the gold medal in the compound bow modality of the Archery World Cup held in the Mexican city of Tlaxcala.
López reached the ninth title of her career with a 147-146 victory over Estonia’s Meeri-Marita Pass.
In the final, the Colombian only had three hits in her first six shots and found herself below Pass, but she recovered in her next nine attempts and with consecutive scores of 10, she beat the Estonian.
López defeated the American Alexia Ruiz in the quarterfinals 148-144 and in the semifinals she eliminated the Mexican Andrea Becerra 149-146.
“In the last arrow my mind disconnected from the body, I launched it unconsciously. I chose to enjoy and things happened,” said the new champion.
A few minutes earlier, Mexican Dafne Quintero won the bronze medal by defeating her compatriot Andrea Becerra 146-145.
The American James Lutz won the gold medal today by defeating the current champion, the Dane Mathías Fullerton, 150-149.
Lutz got rid of the Dutch favorite Mike Schloesser, number one in the world rankings, in the semifinals and confirmed his moment in the final by defeating the last champion.
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